Saved in Time

An Escape Story

De: Francis Mont

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The "Time Scope", is a Sci-Fi TV Set that can be tuned to any space and time coordinate and observe events, without sound, as they took place in the past. It has control buttons and dials for 'Power', 'Time', 'Space', 'Zoom', 'Speed', 'Scan' and 'Track'. It is used, among other things, by an American Senator to find out if his party's presidential nominee, a retired general is, in fact, a power-mad maniac with dictatorial ambitions. He wants to save his country from a rogue president who could cause immense harm to both the USA and the rest of the world. This is the smallest of their problems, The bigger one spans the entire galaxy. The novel has two important messages for the reader. The more obvious one is the suggestion that in our current geopolitical reality, resurgence of totalitarian fascism is a real possibility. The other, more subtle message is: A stable, sustainable social organization can not be based on any hierarchical, domination-structure such as have ever been tried in human history – they are all inherently self destructive. The only working social organization can be a consensus-based anarchism (as described in the Atlantis chapters) and, for that to be possible, we have to deal with our species-wide genetic brain disorder that drives some individuals toward an ultimately suicidal and self destructive domination strategy. If humanity manages to weed these individuals out by education and constant vigilance, the human species may have a chance to avoid extinction.